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The Gallic Wars [a] were waged between 58 and 50 BC by the Roman general Julius Caesar against the peoples of Gaul (present-day France, Belgium, and Switzerland). Gallic, Germanic, and Brittonic tribes fought to defend their homelands against an aggressive Roman campaign.
Gallia Belgica at the time of Julius Caesar's conquest of Gaul in 54 BCE. In 57 BC, Julius Caesar led the conquest of northern Gaul, and already specified that the part to the north of the Seine and Marne rivers was inhabited by a people or alliance known as the Belgae. This definition became the basis of the later Roman province of Belgica.
Caesar had been conquering Gaul since 58 BC and in 56 BC he took most of northwest Gaul after defeating the Veneti in the naval Battle of Morbihan.. Caesar's pretext for the invasion was that "in almost all the wars with the Gauls succours had been furnished to our enemy from that country" with fugitives from among the Gallic Belgae fleeing to Belgic settlements in Britain, [10] and the Veneti ...
Vercingetorix Throws Down his Arms at the Feet of Julius Caesar, painted by Lionel Royer in 1899, now in the Crozatier Museum at Le Puy-en-Velay. Alesia proved to be the end of generalized and organized resistance against Caesar's invasion of Gaul and effectively marked the end of the Gallic Wars.
The Helvetii, a confederation of Gallic tribes, had begun a total migration of its peoples in March of 58 BC. This alarmed the Romans and began the Gallic Wars. [2]Julius Caesar was the governor of Transalpine Gaul, and by the time of battle had between 24,000 and 30,000 legionary troops, and some quantity of auxiliaries, many of whom were Gauls themselves.
Julius Caesar was awarded the Civic Crown for his service in Siege of Mytilene. Gaius Julius Caesar was born into an influential patrician family, the gens Julia. His father, Gaius Julius Caesar, was the governor of the province of Asia, and his mother, Aurelia, came from an influential family who were supporters of Sulla.
Map with the approximate location of pre-Roman Belgic Gaul shortly before Roman conquest, according to an interpretation of Caesar Map of northeastern Gaul around 70 AD. The Belgae (/ ˈ b ɛ l dʒ iː, ˈ b ɛ l ɡ aɪ /) [1] were a large confederation [2] of tribes living in northern Gaul, between the English Channel, the west bank of the Rhine, and the northern bank of the river Seine, from ...
The Battle of the Sabis (57 BCE) Archived 2015-02-23 at the Wayback Machine Photos of the battlefield; Caesar and the Nervians Archived 2015-04-13 at the Wayback Machine Text of Caesar's account of the battle; Battle of the Sambre[sic] from the Military History Encyclopedia on the Web; Clash on the Sabis painting titled 'Fury of the Goths'